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June 4, 2010

YouTube's Interactive Transcripts

YouTube added a cool feature for videos with closed captions: you can now click on the "transcript" button to expand the entire listing. If you click on a line, YouTube will show the excerpt from the video corresponding to the text. If you use your browser's find feature, you can even search inside the video. Here's an example of video that includes a transcript.

YouTube lets you upload a transcript file for a video and it can automatically generate the appropriate timestamps. "YouTube uses experimental speech recognition technology to provide automatic timing for your English transcript. Automatic timing creates a caption file that you can download."

Great feature! Especially taking into account that transcripts are searchable. To make them even more searchable I would like to have a possibility to search ALL youtube transcripts through google search engine.Thank you for listing!

Hi, really like the automatic transcript but it can generate interesting text at times... I would like to be able to correct the transcript on my videos. How can I do that , or download the transcript as editable text, correct and upload? Thanks, Rachael

YYYEEEESSSS. For all those 60-minute lecture videos posted on YouTube (see also: Google TechTalks), this feature is absolutely game changing. Killer =) I just saw this today, and I'm more excited about this than the iPhone 4!

VIVID Books also does this for YouTube vids.Example...http://www.vivid-books.com/reader.htm#2165

Dblclick on word in transcript to jump.Includes table of contents for navigation. Instead of transcript being one gigantic paragraph, it can be broken into sections. Can bookmark sections within the transcript as well.Searches can be done across videos.

videocrux.com is a video site which generates a table of content for the video and lets you search inside a video. Here is an example http://www.videocrux.com/video/26526/Hundreds-race-for-iPhone-4-as-it-debuts-in-Japan

Is there a way to link to a video with this on by default? I'm thinking like with the deep linking, where you can specify the time to start at, a parameter so the page would load with the interactive transcript open.

Transcripts are cool, but using it for subtitles is cooler. Just found a German video series that used to be posted with English subtitles, but those videos have since disappeared. However, now the German version has the subtitles available via Interactive Transcripts. This is beyond awesome.

question: is this at all practical for transcribing video that is subject to confidentiality agreements (ie stuff that hasn't aired yet).

i am completely new to transcribing, i just had a chance to pick up some work but getting set up has been a disaster. i'm searching for a software to bypass the nonsense i've been running into with the vpedal free plugins.

It's wonderful, but YouTube, I don't see a way of showing the 'transcript' button when viewing the video in my channel. For example, compare http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioy2HJuDvq8 (transcript button visible, but not in our channel), with this http://www.youtube.com/user/CBMworldwide#p/a/u/1/ioy2HJuDvq8 (in our channel, but no transcript button)

Here is an example of how 'speech recognition' can give faulty "Interactive transcript"

The original text:This is the daily routine closing ceremony of members of mini forest laughter club, J P Nagar, Bangalore, India. First they gather in two files facing each other. Then they light imaginary fire and throw all their worries into that and burn them. The fire is doused soon after. Now they pluck imaginary flowers form a tree and sprinkle them on each other. Each ritual is followed by clapping of hands and shouting Ho, Ho, Ha, Ha, Ha. This is followed by placing both their palms on the head and saying loudly, "let us learn all good things from each other"

And, the transcript:

0:07this is the daily routine closing ceremony as members of mini forest and0:11after club j_p_ mcgrath bangalore0:16first they gather in june files facing each other0:19and in nineteen ninety nine five intro although worries into that tuned burden0:24defined as ballast soon often0:27now they talk imaginary flowers for treatment springs gordon on each other0:31each ritual is followed by clapping of hands and shouting poem0:36hahahaha power this is followed by placing broken homes on the head and0:41saying about the register and all good things from each other

Love the concept of interactive transcripts :-) but you do get some odd transcribing at times! How can we either correct the transcript in youtube or download the transcript as a correctable text file as a basis and then upload?

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I’m sorry, this feature is atrocious, especially with videos featuring American narrators. The transcripts are seriously horrendous, e.g. ‘acrylic painting’ being rendered as ‘credit rating’, and ‘we get ahead of ourselves’ as ‘we get a hotbed of ourselves’.